California man to be sentenced April 30 on attempted child enticement and distribution of child pornography charges

BIRMINGHAM, Alabama - A former Los Angeles Sheriff's
Department employee pleaded guilty this morning to charges of distribution of
child pornography and attempting to entice a minor to engage in illegal sexual
activity in Alabama.

Rainwater, at times crying, pleaded guilty in a hearing this
morning before U.S. District Court Judge Virginia Hopkins at the Hugo L. Black
U.S. Courthouse in downtown Birmingham. The judge set sentencing in Rainwater's
case for April 30.

Rainwater has been held in jail without bail since his
arrest.

Rainwater at the time of his arrest worked
in the information technology department of the Los Angeles Sheriff's
Department.

Rainwater's
attorney, Tommy Spina, in court this morning filed a plea agreement between
Rainwater and the U.S. Attorneys Office. Before entering his plea, Rainwater's
jury trial had been set to begin Feb. 5.

Under the plea agreement,
prosecutors will move to dismiss another count of the indictment at his
sentencing and won't bring other charges
against him for crossing a state line with intent to engage in a sexual
act with a person younger than 12 for conduct occurring before his arrest in
October.

According to the plea agreement, Rainwater
on Aug. 10 began communicating through the Internet, email, instant message and
text with what he thought was a parent willing to allow him to engage in
illegal sexual activity with his two minor children _ ages 8 and 13. The "parent"
however was an undercover law enforcement agent.

Over the following weeks before
Rainwater flew to Birmingham, he emailed the undercover agent images of child
pornography, according to the plea agreement.